[WikiEN-l] WTF Have I Missed?

[Joe Anderson]

Who are these 'trusted users'?

On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/27/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > So what exactly is being proposed?
>
> Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most recent
> revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted user as
> being free of vandalism.  There may be more recent revisions, but
> those will not be displayed by default; readers will have to
> specifically request to see them.  A consequence of this is that edits
> made by anonymous readers will not be immediately displayed as the
> "primary" revision of an article.  This is being misrepresented by
> some as imposing an approval requirement on such edits before they
> become visible, but that's not what it is; such edits are immediately
> visible as they are now, just not as the primary version which is
> displayed by default to anonymous readers.
>
> I, personally, see this as a great benefit to the vast bulk of our
> customers: the chances that Joe Q. Public will go to an article he
> found by a Google search and be confronted by unexpected penis go WAY
> down with this approach.
>
> Kelly
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